The Battaglia Foundry Sculpture Prize (BFSP) is an annual award established with the aim of promoting the use of bronze and the ancient lost-wax casting process in contemporary art practices and addressed to young international artists.
Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, historical foundry established in Milan in 1913, is both founder and promoter of the Prize.
Ten international leading figures of the contemporary art world select ten artists to present a proposal for a bronze cast. A jury then evaluates the projects, paying specific attention to their procedural features, which are of extreme challenge whitin the casting process.

The BFSP is a proactive platform for cultural/technical research within the millenary tradition of bronze casting.

The Prize aims to promote the unique experience of an artistic collaboration with a traditional bronze foundry. In Fonderia Artistica Battaglia manual skills and understanding of the different material stages in lost-wax bronze casting are investigated day by day under the supervision of skilled artisans.

The BFSP wishes to challenge the very nature of lost wax casting in all its different features: from a procedural point of view to its cultural implications and potential translation in the world of contemporary art.

BFSP #03 - THEME THE SKIN

The third edition of BFSP 2018/2019 will focus on the great potential of surface translation of lost-wax bronze casting. Since ancient times many materials were translated and converted into bronze to achieve the accuracy of a variety of textures, from organic “skins” to artificial ones (leaves, insects, wood, animals, plastics, etc.). What dialogue can be installede and stressed between a form and its surface, through the positive and negative stages intrinsic in the lost-wax process?

Launching the Third Edition of the Prize, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia is glad to announce the names of the ten artists selected by an international selection committee.

The Prize consists of a bursary and a residency period at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, to take place between October and December 2018. The winner will thus be able to create the work proposed in close cooperation with Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, which will provide the technical consultancy necessary during the entire process.
The winning work will be officially presented to the public in Milan, during the week of Miart 2019, in April.

Our yearlong investigation into the body continues. CURA. 28 is devoted to different artistic experiences and practices—crossing generations, time, space, and media—revolving around the boundaries, powers, forms and interpretations of the body that exist within the present world.